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Essays & Analysis (7)

Individuals think differently when it comes to obedience. One might think of how we train dogs to be obedient, another might relate obedience to punishing a child for breaking a rule, or even others ...
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Regarding consent my personal judgement would be that Milgrim had not received the participants fully informed consent; as they did not know the full extent of the study, by today's guidelines I would...
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Obedience is the requirement of all mutual living and is the basic element of the structure of social life. Conservative philosophers argue that society is threatened by disobedience, while humanists ...
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The Milgram experiments, conducted by Stanley Milgram, focused on obedience to authority, and the lengths to which a subject would go, when prodded by someone in there authority. This may not seem at ...
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In the article "Obedience", Ian Parker points out that the Milgram Experiment was the most reviled experiment in the history of social psychology. Parker focuses on Milgram's past, as well as some o...
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To a certain extent studies of obedience have been shown to lack experimental validity, ecological validity and mundane realism.
Experimental validity is: the validity of the experiment I the contex...
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In "The Perils of Obedience," Stanley Milgram conducted a study that tests the conflict between obedience to authority and one's own conscience. Through the experiments, Milgram discovered that the ...
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